How to format your references using the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Erez, N. (2015). Cancer: Opening LOX to metastasis: Nature, Vol. 522, No. 7554, pp. 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasare, C., and Medzhitov, R. (2005). Control of B-cell responses by Toll-like receptors: Nature, Vol. 438, No. 7066, pp. 364–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

Penner, J.E., Dong, X., and Chen, Y. (2004). Observational evidence of a change in radiative forcing due to the indirect aerosol effect: Nature, Vol. 427, No. 6971, pp. 231–234.

A journal article with 16 or more authors

Sharma, S., tenOever, B.R., Grandvaux, N., Zhou, G.-P., Lin, R., and Hiscott, J. (2003). Triggering the interferon antiviral response through an IKK-related pathway: Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 300, No. 5622, pp. 1148–1151.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Knuth, E. (2011). Trading Between the Lines, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Suit, H.D. (2011). Evolution of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (J. S. Loeffler, Ed.), Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Durand, G., Belacel, N., and Goutte, C. (2015). “Evaluation of Expert-Based Q-Matrices Predictive Quality in Matrix Factorization Models.” Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World: 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2015, Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, Proceedings, Conole, G., Klobučar, T., Rensing, C., Konert, J. and Lavoué, E. eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 56–69.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). “Talking” Cod Found To Have Regional Accents, And You Can Listen To Them Here: IFLScience,.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2002). Highway Projects: Extent of Projects with Unobligated Balances of Greater Than 85 Percent as of August 16, 2002: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Dimick, E. (2015). A Comparative Study on Pheromone Communication between Schizophyllum species, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Walsh, M.W., and Story, L. (2011). Seeking Business, States Loosen Insurance Rules: New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Erez, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Erez, 2015; Pasare and Medzhitov, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Pasare and Medzhitov, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Sharma et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
Abbreviation	KSCE J. Civ. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1226-7988
ISSN (online)	1976-3808
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering